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Plan We are going to talk 11 00:01:04,440 --> 00:01:08,560 Speaker 1: to Catherine Rayhees Boyd in just a moment. She's been 12 00:01:08,600 --> 00:01:12,400 Speaker 1: president of the Western States Petroleum Association and she oversees 13 00:01:12,440 --> 00:01:16,560 Speaker 1: the gas and oil industry operations and advocacy in all 14 00:01:16,600 --> 00:01:21,800 Speaker 1: the Western States. And an hour newsom is said there's 15 00:01:21,800 --> 00:01:23,600 Speaker 1: gonna be a flex alert. They're gonna ask people to 16 00:01:23,840 --> 00:01:27,679 Speaker 1: reduce their power usage between four and nine o'clock, including 17 00:01:28,480 --> 00:01:33,520 Speaker 1: not plugging in your electric car for five hours. This 18 00:01:33,680 --> 00:01:36,440 Speaker 1: comes just a few days after he announced that they 19 00:01:36,440 --> 00:01:39,440 Speaker 1: are banning electric car sales by twenty thirty five and 20 00:01:39,520 --> 00:01:44,680 Speaker 1: in fact, in just three years and four months, it's 21 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:49,240 Speaker 1: going to be one third of the car supply. It's 22 00:01:49,240 --> 00:01:53,960 Speaker 1: going to be electric. By Newsome's mandate, one third the 23 00:01:54,480 --> 00:01:57,680 Speaker 1: dealerships the manufacturers have to sell in California thirty five 24 00:01:57,680 --> 00:02:00,520 Speaker 1: percent of electric cars. Now, that's assuming people buy them, 25 00:02:00,560 --> 00:02:03,360 Speaker 1: and that's what's going to be really entertaining. Will they 26 00:02:03,360 --> 00:02:06,880 Speaker 1: actually buy them? But nobody wants to talk about that, 27 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:08,880 Speaker 1: and very few in the media want to discuss it. 28 00:02:09,120 --> 00:02:12,440 Speaker 1: I can't tell you how I've spent I'm working hard 29 00:02:13,440 --> 00:02:15,320 Speaker 1: this week, not only because you know, Ken's not here, 30 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:18,440 Speaker 1: it's on vacation, but I'm also trying to find because 31 00:02:18,480 --> 00:02:21,840 Speaker 1: somewhere somebody writes about all the details on the practicality 32 00:02:21,840 --> 00:02:24,000 Speaker 1: of all this, and we went through it extensively yesterday. 33 00:02:24,520 --> 00:02:29,480 Speaker 1: But whether we have an electrical grid for all electric cars, 34 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:33,480 Speaker 1: and we don't. Whether we have charging stations, we're way 35 00:02:33,520 --> 00:02:35,680 Speaker 1: way short on that, and a lot of them don't work, 36 00:02:35,720 --> 00:02:38,200 Speaker 1: and most of them are really slow. So there's a 37 00:02:38,200 --> 00:02:41,080 Speaker 1: lot of stuff not being covered. But it's all true, 38 00:02:41,680 --> 00:02:44,040 Speaker 1: and a lot of people aren't going to find out 39 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:47,280 Speaker 1: about it until these mandates go through. And you realize 40 00:02:47,560 --> 00:02:50,000 Speaker 1: that life by design is going to be made very 41 00:02:50,040 --> 00:02:52,639 Speaker 1: difficult here, all right, let's get Katherine Raheus boyd On 42 00:02:52,960 --> 00:02:57,040 Speaker 1: from the Western States Petroleum Association. Katherine, how are you? 43 00:02:57,760 --> 00:03:02,720 Speaker 1: I'm good, John, how are you doing good? I keep 44 00:03:02,760 --> 00:03:07,240 Speaker 1: thinking I'm going insane. He knew some announces this ban 45 00:03:07,360 --> 00:03:09,720 Speaker 1: on gas powered cars at a certain point in the future. 46 00:03:10,760 --> 00:03:14,239 Speaker 1: Over a third of the sales have to be electric 47 00:03:14,280 --> 00:03:17,840 Speaker 1: cars by twenty twenty six. And yet now we're not 48 00:03:17,840 --> 00:03:20,760 Speaker 1: supposed to plug in our car between four and nine, 49 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:25,200 Speaker 1: probably for the next week. Am I missing something here? Well, 50 00:03:25,240 --> 00:03:28,079 Speaker 1: I'm glad I'm not the only one who is going insane, 51 00:03:28,160 --> 00:03:32,760 Speaker 1: because this is no plan that I would like to 52 00:03:32,800 --> 00:03:36,480 Speaker 1: be a part of. Because, as you rightly said, in 53 00:03:36,520 --> 00:03:39,840 Speaker 1: just over three years, the sale of these electric vehicles, 54 00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:42,960 Speaker 1: they're going to average about sixty six thousand dollars each, 55 00:03:43,080 --> 00:03:45,960 Speaker 1: and they're going too more than need to double. So 56 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:50,160 Speaker 1: there's no plan to make that happen other than likely 57 00:03:50,280 --> 00:03:56,120 Speaker 1: raising costs to consumers. I wouldn't buy an electric car 58 00:03:56,800 --> 00:03:59,160 Speaker 1: if every time he gets hot, I can't plug it 59 00:03:59,200 --> 00:04:02,440 Speaker 1: in for five hours a day, especially after I get 60 00:04:02,480 --> 00:04:06,360 Speaker 1: home from work. I'm just simply not playing that game. Yeah, 61 00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:08,640 Speaker 1: I'm glad because I hope many people aren't going to 62 00:04:08,680 --> 00:04:12,000 Speaker 1: play that game because we only have eleven percent of 63 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:15,360 Speaker 1: the needed charging infrastructure for this plan, and the taxpayers 64 00:04:15,360 --> 00:04:17,800 Speaker 1: are going to have to pay millions of dollars to 65 00:04:17,880 --> 00:04:20,240 Speaker 1: rush to add new charge errors while we're trying to 66 00:04:20,279 --> 00:04:23,120 Speaker 1: keep the light time and we're already seeing this right now. 67 00:04:23,240 --> 00:04:26,160 Speaker 1: So not only that, but we've got you know, this 68 00:04:26,279 --> 00:04:28,640 Speaker 1: is probably just the start, right If you like the 69 00:04:28,720 --> 00:04:31,719 Speaker 1: freedom of choosing the vehicle that's best for your family, 70 00:04:31,760 --> 00:04:35,480 Speaker 1: if you oppose taxes on every mile you travel, if 71 00:04:35,520 --> 00:04:38,839 Speaker 1: you don't like being told when you can drive and 72 00:04:38,880 --> 00:04:40,880 Speaker 1: where you can drive, if you have a boat, an 73 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:45,560 Speaker 1: RV and off road vehicle, I'd take a real serious 74 00:04:45,600 --> 00:04:48,600 Speaker 1: look at this band that's coming your way. Why are 75 00:04:48,640 --> 00:04:52,400 Speaker 1: we so short of electricity generating electricity? It seems like 76 00:04:52,440 --> 00:04:55,160 Speaker 1: there must have been bad decisions that have gone on 77 00:04:55,240 --> 00:04:59,400 Speaker 1: for decades. Well, let's talk about two of them. We 78 00:05:00,320 --> 00:05:03,120 Speaker 1: made a concerted effort in this state to not we, 79 00:05:03,400 --> 00:05:07,080 Speaker 1: but the government of legislature to take natural gas power 80 00:05:07,120 --> 00:05:11,520 Speaker 1: plants offline. Why not because natural gas isn't affordable and 81 00:05:11,640 --> 00:05:16,400 Speaker 1: clean and available, but because it's fossil And so since 82 00:05:16,440 --> 00:05:20,880 Speaker 1: they don't want fossil to natural gas power plants, offline, cheapest, 83 00:05:20,920 --> 00:05:26,159 Speaker 1: cleanest available, reliable fuel, and in our infinite wisdom, we 84 00:05:26,279 --> 00:05:31,400 Speaker 1: also decided to not keep the Diablo power plant and 85 00:05:31,880 --> 00:05:36,120 Speaker 1: the nuclear power plant and trying to obviously take it offline, 86 00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:40,040 Speaker 1: and both of these would allow us to continue to 87 00:05:40,120 --> 00:05:43,320 Speaker 1: keep the lights on. Would be a great way to 88 00:05:43,400 --> 00:05:45,960 Speaker 1: have an all of the above energy strategy, which I think, 89 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:48,400 Speaker 1: you know, John, we're all four. You know, why put 90 00:05:48,400 --> 00:05:52,480 Speaker 1: all your eggs in one basket. Nobody does that? Develop everything, 91 00:05:53,200 --> 00:05:59,960 Speaker 1: develop everything when solar, liquid fuels, biofuels, hydrogen, renewable, natural gas, renewables. 92 00:06:00,040 --> 00:06:02,719 Speaker 1: So all these are great choices which the state of 93 00:06:02,760 --> 00:06:05,600 Speaker 1: California does not want to do because they have a 94 00:06:05,640 --> 00:06:10,120 Speaker 1: single focus on one hundred percent electrification, which is not 95 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:12,200 Speaker 1: a plant, it is a plan. It's just a plan 96 00:06:12,279 --> 00:06:16,520 Speaker 1: for disaster. What's going to happen in the near future 97 00:06:16,640 --> 00:06:20,640 Speaker 1: that is going to impact people's lives. And let's say 98 00:06:20,640 --> 00:06:23,360 Speaker 1: we get to twenty twenty six and there's a big 99 00:06:23,400 --> 00:06:27,960 Speaker 1: shortage of cars on the dealership lot that are gas powered, 100 00:06:28,320 --> 00:06:32,480 Speaker 1: and suppose the drought continues, and you know, we have 101 00:06:32,560 --> 00:06:36,599 Speaker 1: all these blackouts because we're losing hydroelectric power because of 102 00:06:36,600 --> 00:06:39,520 Speaker 1: the drought. It just seems like eventually there's a day 103 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:41,720 Speaker 1: is going to come and everyone's going to realize this 104 00:06:41,760 --> 00:06:47,599 Speaker 1: whole system isn't working at all. I really hope that 105 00:06:47,640 --> 00:06:51,240 Speaker 1: we don't have to wait for that day because affordability 106 00:06:51,640 --> 00:06:56,719 Speaker 1: is totally on the plate here. And as you know, 107 00:06:56,960 --> 00:07:01,560 Speaker 1: even if you stop the sale of of internal combustion engines, 108 00:07:01,880 --> 00:07:04,240 Speaker 1: you are still going to half thirty six million of 109 00:07:04,320 --> 00:07:10,360 Speaker 1: them driving around. And tell this lovely transition plan actually 110 00:07:10,440 --> 00:07:13,120 Speaker 1: comes to fruition and they have to be fueled. They 111 00:07:13,160 --> 00:07:15,120 Speaker 1: have to be fueled, John, Where are they going to 112 00:07:15,200 --> 00:07:17,960 Speaker 1: be fueled? They're going to be fueled by the very 113 00:07:18,040 --> 00:07:20,840 Speaker 1: companies that they're trying to put out a business. And 114 00:07:21,320 --> 00:07:25,240 Speaker 1: I mean it's tied to production, John, because look the 115 00:07:25,240 --> 00:07:28,320 Speaker 1: other side of the equation. You need crude oil out 116 00:07:28,320 --> 00:07:30,880 Speaker 1: of the ground to make gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel. 117 00:07:30,920 --> 00:07:33,280 Speaker 1: So what are they doing right now as we speak? 118 00:07:33,600 --> 00:07:37,320 Speaker 1: They are voting to put a thirty two hundred setback 119 00:07:37,360 --> 00:07:40,400 Speaker 1: on every oil well in the state of California, which 120 00:07:40,400 --> 00:07:44,840 Speaker 1: would drop our local production down significantly. So now what 121 00:07:44,880 --> 00:07:47,280 Speaker 1: do we gotta do. We gotta import it from places 122 00:07:47,320 --> 00:07:51,120 Speaker 1: that you know, don't particularly have our environmental standards. We 123 00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:52,840 Speaker 1: got to put it on a tanker, we got to 124 00:07:52,880 --> 00:07:56,520 Speaker 1: move it across the marine environment and congested ports and 125 00:07:56,600 --> 00:07:59,440 Speaker 1: race prices again on that end. So this is what 126 00:07:59,520 --> 00:08:04,200 Speaker 1: I stand. We cut oil production here, but do we 127 00:08:04,240 --> 00:08:06,800 Speaker 1: have to buy the oil, as you said, from somewhere else. 128 00:08:06,920 --> 00:08:10,880 Speaker 1: It is the same amount of greenhouse gases going into 129 00:08:10,880 --> 00:08:14,640 Speaker 1: the air. It's actually it's worse because you know in 130 00:08:14,640 --> 00:08:19,400 Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia or Venezuela, their oil production facilities are much 131 00:08:19,520 --> 00:08:24,239 Speaker 1: dirtier than ours by far. So it's not saving anything 132 00:08:24,280 --> 00:08:27,560 Speaker 1: for the planet. Not only is it not saving anything 133 00:08:27,560 --> 00:08:30,360 Speaker 1: for the planet when you when you think about that plant, 134 00:08:30,400 --> 00:08:33,640 Speaker 1: it increases greenhouse gases. And what happens to State of 135 00:08:33,640 --> 00:08:37,520 Speaker 1: California higher costs for the very crude oil that you 136 00:08:37,559 --> 00:08:42,720 Speaker 1: could have been producing here and into the very same 137 00:08:42,760 --> 00:08:47,240 Speaker 1: communities that are complaining at congested ports. So what are 138 00:08:47,360 --> 00:08:50,360 Speaker 1: you doing. You're losing taxes, you're losing jobs, you're using revenues, 139 00:08:50,360 --> 00:08:53,839 Speaker 1: and you're increasing greenhouse gas. What kind of a plan 140 00:08:54,400 --> 00:08:58,240 Speaker 1: is this? Okay, So why are they doing this? This 141 00:08:58,280 --> 00:09:01,560 Speaker 1: is where I start to question my sanity. It's not 142 00:09:01,600 --> 00:09:04,200 Speaker 1: going to help the climate, It's actually going to worsen 143 00:09:04,760 --> 00:09:09,199 Speaker 1: the climate problems that they deliver. This is all political, John, 144 00:09:09,240 --> 00:09:13,560 Speaker 1: It has nothing to do with facts, with science, with 145 00:09:13,720 --> 00:09:17,679 Speaker 1: energy realism. We all know and you know we can, 146 00:09:17,960 --> 00:09:21,600 Speaker 1: we can strive to meet these climate change goals in 147 00:09:21,640 --> 00:09:24,280 Speaker 1: a way that doesn't take the economy. But that is 148 00:09:24,320 --> 00:09:27,680 Speaker 1: not a politically acceptable message to this governor who wants 149 00:09:27,679 --> 00:09:31,160 Speaker 1: to vilify the very industry who could help them get there. 150 00:09:31,480 --> 00:09:35,400 Speaker 1: It's all political vola. But what is the political upside 151 00:09:35,400 --> 00:09:40,000 Speaker 1: of this. He's got to go online today on the 152 00:09:40,080 --> 00:09:44,319 Speaker 1: radio and beg people to unplug their electric cars for 153 00:09:44,360 --> 00:09:46,720 Speaker 1: five hours. He's got to make an address for half 154 00:09:46,760 --> 00:09:49,560 Speaker 1: an hour. I didn't see how this benefits him. It 155 00:09:49,559 --> 00:09:52,640 Speaker 1: looks like a fool up there. I'm with you, I 156 00:09:52,679 --> 00:09:55,120 Speaker 1: am totally with you, and wait till the rest of 157 00:09:55,160 --> 00:09:57,920 Speaker 1: the nation wakes up. I'm sure you've you've heard the 158 00:09:58,280 --> 00:10:02,320 Speaker 1: statement one seventy seven Stay why seventy seven states or states? 159 00:10:02,679 --> 00:10:05,040 Speaker 1: You know? And it's throughout the nation that have the 160 00:10:05,080 --> 00:10:08,160 Speaker 1: ability to adopt California's plan. They have to adopt it, 161 00:10:08,240 --> 00:10:10,559 Speaker 1: lock Stock and Bell like they can't change anything, they 162 00:10:10,559 --> 00:10:13,920 Speaker 1: have to adopt it. So why did the Florida the 163 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:17,880 Speaker 1: situation in running Florida ads get so much attention because 164 00:10:17,960 --> 00:10:20,840 Speaker 1: Florida woke up and said, oh my god, this is 165 00:10:20,880 --> 00:10:24,880 Speaker 1: not what we want. So we've got to educate people 166 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:28,280 Speaker 1: across this nation as to the lack of a plan 167 00:10:28,600 --> 00:10:31,800 Speaker 1: California has and the economic impact it has on the 168 00:10:32,080 --> 00:10:35,199 Speaker 1: every consumer of this state. And oh, by the way, John, 169 00:10:35,240 --> 00:10:37,880 Speaker 1: as you said so many times on the air, we're 170 00:10:37,960 --> 00:10:40,800 Speaker 1: less than one percent of the greenhouse gas emissions in 171 00:10:40,800 --> 00:10:44,080 Speaker 1: the world. So how much economic harm are we willing 172 00:10:44,400 --> 00:10:48,040 Speaker 1: to bring on ourselves? That's what floors me all the time. 173 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:51,360 Speaker 1: We are so tiny compared to the rest of the world, 174 00:10:52,320 --> 00:10:59,760 Speaker 1: and it knew some acts like, you know, we're China. 175 00:10:57,120 --> 00:11:02,200 Speaker 1: We want to be a leader, and I would say 176 00:11:02,240 --> 00:11:05,079 Speaker 1: to be a leader, you should have a plan that 177 00:11:05,160 --> 00:11:08,480 Speaker 1: balances the economy with the environment, which is quite doable. 178 00:11:09,120 --> 00:11:11,640 Speaker 1: But that is not what we're doing here. That is 179 00:11:11,679 --> 00:11:15,840 Speaker 1: not this plan. This plan is one electrification of the 180 00:11:16,040 --> 00:11:21,600 Speaker 1: entire transportation system, which is insane. Can you hang on 181 00:11:21,640 --> 00:11:24,080 Speaker 1: a minute. I want to talk about the electrical grid 182 00:11:24,120 --> 00:11:26,800 Speaker 1: that we have here in California. Okay, you got some time? 183 00:11:28,040 --> 00:11:30,520 Speaker 1: All right? All right? Katherine Rahee's boy, she's president of 184 00:11:30,520 --> 00:11:35,240 Speaker 1: the Western States Petroleum Association, about the insanity. Forty five minutes, 185 00:11:35,280 --> 00:11:38,000 Speaker 1: there's a flex alert. You're you're supposed to reduce your 186 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:41,240 Speaker 1: electrical usage or we're gonna have blackouts today, it's going 187 00:11:41,320 --> 00:11:43,079 Speaker 1: to go on for a week. In fact, you're not 188 00:11:43,120 --> 00:11:45,160 Speaker 1: supposed to plug in your electric car. And this comes 189 00:11:45,160 --> 00:11:48,680 Speaker 1: a week after he issued his proclamation that no electric, 190 00:11:49,240 --> 00:11:52,040 Speaker 1: no gas powered cars will be sold here in twenty 191 00:11:52,360 --> 00:11:55,240 Speaker 1: thirty five. It's if it sounds nuts, it's because it's nuts. 192 00:11:55,640 --> 00:11:58,679 Speaker 1: You're not crazy. After it's not crazy. I'm not crazy, 193 00:11:58,720 --> 00:12:01,000 Speaker 1: all right, I'm telling you the truth. That's the state 194 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:03,320 Speaker 1: of things right now. We'll talk about the electrical grids 195 00:12:03,400 --> 00:12:05,280 Speaker 1: rolling all this coming up, John and kN K five. 196 00:12:07,200 --> 00:12:11,080 Speaker 1: All right, Katherine, I know you're primarily deal with gas 197 00:12:11,160 --> 00:12:15,559 Speaker 1: and oil, but that feeds the electric electrical system here 198 00:12:17,559 --> 00:12:20,160 Speaker 1: and we're running short of electricity. And what I read 199 00:12:20,200 --> 00:12:22,840 Speaker 1: the other day is when it came to electric cars, 200 00:12:23,720 --> 00:12:27,800 Speaker 1: we need by twenty thirty one point two million charging stations, 201 00:12:28,480 --> 00:12:31,839 Speaker 1: and we only have eighty thousand. And out of the 202 00:12:31,880 --> 00:12:36,400 Speaker 1: eighty thousand, there's only seven thousand fast charging stations, which 203 00:12:36,440 --> 00:12:38,800 Speaker 1: means that most of these charging stations, it'll take you 204 00:12:38,880 --> 00:12:43,640 Speaker 1: many hours to recharge. That's all true, right, I keep 205 00:12:44,280 --> 00:12:48,000 Speaker 1: reading this, it's self true, John, And you're very good 206 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:50,640 Speaker 1: at mass A plus B does not equal see here, 207 00:12:51,040 --> 00:12:55,079 Speaker 1: And you know from four to nine pm everybody knows 208 00:12:55,080 --> 00:12:58,959 Speaker 1: the system stressed. Why because the demand for electricity is 209 00:12:59,040 --> 00:13:02,199 Speaker 1: high and there's solar energy available. Sun doesn't shine all 210 00:13:02,200 --> 00:13:06,280 Speaker 1: the time, and we haven't cracked the nut of battery 211 00:13:06,360 --> 00:13:10,760 Speaker 1: storage yet. So instead of being prepared for that, right, 212 00:13:10,880 --> 00:13:15,840 Speaker 1: instead of having backup generation, instead of making sure the 213 00:13:15,920 --> 00:13:19,480 Speaker 1: system can operate no matter what, whether the sun shines 214 00:13:19,559 --> 00:13:21,480 Speaker 1: there all the time or the wind blows all that, 215 00:13:22,240 --> 00:13:25,760 Speaker 1: we should have a system in the largest economy that 216 00:13:25,800 --> 00:13:30,439 Speaker 1: we are to be able to deal with our electricity demands. 217 00:13:30,480 --> 00:13:33,440 Speaker 1: And instead what we do is not have backup plans, 218 00:13:33,480 --> 00:13:35,600 Speaker 1: and then we have to put in flex alerts that 219 00:13:35,760 --> 00:13:41,720 Speaker 1: require people to do everything you just said again, just 220 00:13:41,880 --> 00:13:44,800 Speaker 1: like the ban on internal combustion engines before you're ready. 221 00:13:44,880 --> 00:13:47,920 Speaker 1: This is exactly the same thing. And nobody's saying we're 222 00:13:47,920 --> 00:13:51,760 Speaker 1: against renewables. Renewables are wonderful as long as they're reliable, 223 00:13:51,800 --> 00:13:54,800 Speaker 1: and they're not. What are we going to do if 224 00:13:54,840 --> 00:13:58,280 Speaker 1: millions of people buy these electric cars and we don't 225 00:13:58,320 --> 00:14:03,000 Speaker 1: have the charging stations that work quickly and reliably. Without 226 00:14:03,080 --> 00:14:06,160 Speaker 1: these flex alert rules, how are people going to get around? 227 00:14:07,040 --> 00:14:09,280 Speaker 1: They're not, and they're going to be very frustrated and 228 00:14:09,400 --> 00:14:14,280 Speaker 1: completely you know, at some point, at some point, there's 229 00:14:14,280 --> 00:14:16,920 Speaker 1: got to be a revolt, because if people can't move, 230 00:14:17,360 --> 00:14:21,040 Speaker 1: they can't get from me to be affordably reliably. You know, 231 00:14:21,280 --> 00:14:23,520 Speaker 1: they can't turn their lights on and heat and cool 232 00:14:23,560 --> 00:14:28,160 Speaker 1: their homes. I mean, you can say whatever largest economy 233 00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:31,640 Speaker 1: you want, but if we can't have the quality of 234 00:14:31,680 --> 00:14:38,880 Speaker 1: life that this state should demand, then what do we have. Yeah. 235 00:14:38,920 --> 00:14:42,040 Speaker 1: I've only been in one place where they had rolling 236 00:14:42,080 --> 00:14:44,920 Speaker 1: blackouts regularly, and that's when I went on a safari 237 00:14:45,320 --> 00:14:47,800 Speaker 1: in Central Africa and we were at an airport at 238 00:14:47,800 --> 00:14:51,440 Speaker 1: a three hour layover and the electricity was going off 239 00:14:51,480 --> 00:14:55,720 Speaker 1: about every fifteen or twenty minutes. And nowhere else having 240 00:14:55,840 --> 00:14:58,360 Speaker 1: encountered this. But it looks like that's what's coming here 241 00:14:58,360 --> 00:15:01,600 Speaker 1: in California, and it could be any Dana, Yeah, it 242 00:15:01,680 --> 00:15:03,800 Speaker 1: could be any day now because we don't have a plan. 243 00:15:05,120 --> 00:15:07,240 Speaker 1: We could have a plan, but we don't have a plan. 244 00:15:08,080 --> 00:15:11,280 Speaker 1: And our plan is then to require everybody to deal 245 00:15:11,320 --> 00:15:14,000 Speaker 1: with the fact that we don't have a plan and 246 00:15:14,040 --> 00:15:16,800 Speaker 1: that they deal with that through these flex of alerts 247 00:15:16,840 --> 00:15:20,240 Speaker 1: where people have to not plug in, not turn their 248 00:15:20,440 --> 00:15:23,960 Speaker 1: electricity on, not use their appliances, you know, not all 249 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:27,520 Speaker 1: these things turn their thermostats you know higher during you know, 250 00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:30,960 Speaker 1: he waves your client for a fault, he blames you 251 00:15:31,080 --> 00:15:35,640 Speaker 1: the weather, or he blames us not the government, for 252 00:15:35,760 --> 00:15:42,000 Speaker 1: creating this system. Yeah. Yes, it's very unfair and unfortunate 253 00:15:42,040 --> 00:15:44,760 Speaker 1: where he places the blame because he should look at 254 00:15:44,840 --> 00:15:48,320 Speaker 1: himself in the legislature where these decisions are made. And 255 00:15:48,720 --> 00:15:50,560 Speaker 1: like I said in the previous they are made for 256 00:15:50,640 --> 00:15:53,680 Speaker 1: political reasons. They're not made in the best interests of 257 00:15:53,720 --> 00:15:56,640 Speaker 1: this state, and that is a travesty. I can't believe 258 00:15:56,640 --> 00:16:02,840 Speaker 1: the long list of energy sources he's ruled out nuclear, oil, gas, 259 00:16:04,560 --> 00:16:07,200 Speaker 1: hydroelectric power is going to run short because of the 260 00:16:07,200 --> 00:16:12,920 Speaker 1: water shortage. I mean, you can't cross everything off the list. 261 00:16:14,280 --> 00:16:17,000 Speaker 1: Cole obviously is really bad. I mean that's five different 262 00:16:17,040 --> 00:16:21,040 Speaker 1: sources of energy that he doesn't want used well, and 263 00:16:21,200 --> 00:16:25,800 Speaker 1: he continues to forget that the biggest, the biggest reduction 264 00:16:26,080 --> 00:16:31,160 Speaker 1: in greenhouse gas emissions BARN one is using natural gas 265 00:16:31,920 --> 00:16:35,520 Speaker 1: barn on. That is where the benefits of this nation 266 00:16:35,720 --> 00:16:40,680 Speaker 1: have come from, and he wants that eliminated completely. And 267 00:16:40,760 --> 00:16:46,160 Speaker 1: it's very plentiful, cheap, reliable, affordable, all the things the 268 00:16:46,200 --> 00:16:54,240 Speaker 1: rest of the world is absolutely clamoring for. So yeah, 269 00:16:53,440 --> 00:16:56,280 Speaker 1: I don't get it. I don't want to get it. 270 00:16:57,160 --> 00:17:00,720 Speaker 1: I really would wish we had leadership that would sit 271 00:17:00,800 --> 00:17:03,840 Speaker 1: down with the stakeholders to figure out a plan that 272 00:17:03,960 --> 00:17:07,400 Speaker 1: works versus the one we have that doesn't. I don't 273 00:17:07,400 --> 00:17:11,320 Speaker 1: think there's a big request, but it hasn't happened. Katherine, 274 00:17:11,320 --> 00:17:13,119 Speaker 1: thanks for coming on with us. We'll talk with you again. 275 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:16,960 Speaker 1: Thank you. John all right, Katherine reeheis boyd and she's 276 00:17:17,040 --> 00:17:21,119 Speaker 1: president of the Western States Petroleum Association. John and Ken 277 00:17:21,240 --> 00:17:26,160 Speaker 1: Chow cafe. Allright, we'll have more on the power situation 278 00:17:26,240 --> 00:17:29,240 Speaker 1: coming up at four o'clock with Alex Stone ABC News 279 00:17:30,680 --> 00:17:35,480 Speaker 1: from how partly his report will cover how much hotter 280 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:38,520 Speaker 1: it's gonna get and how long. He's also gonna go 281 00:17:38,560 --> 00:17:42,640 Speaker 1: over Gavin Newsom's address that we carried at two o'clock, 282 00:17:42,960 --> 00:17:48,480 Speaker 1: so you see what happens this week, because we're teetering 283 00:17:48,600 --> 00:17:52,960 Speaker 1: right on the edge of blackouts and Newsom is very nervous. 284 00:17:53,600 --> 00:17:57,640 Speaker 1: One blackout and he might be cooked as a presidential material. 285 00:18:00,080 --> 00:18:08,280 Speaker 1: The other big botch is our water supply. We're way 286 00:18:08,280 --> 00:18:13,040 Speaker 1: short of water, and you can't just yell well, it's 287 00:18:13,040 --> 00:18:17,360 Speaker 1: a drought and it's climate change. You know, again, droughts 288 00:18:18,359 --> 00:18:21,960 Speaker 1: very common on this land that now we call California. 289 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:26,240 Speaker 1: Before it was known as California, there were droughts that 290 00:18:26,320 --> 00:18:30,280 Speaker 1: lasted up to two hundred years each, two of them 291 00:18:31,160 --> 00:18:34,439 Speaker 1: from eight fifty to about ten to fifty or so, 292 00:18:34,680 --> 00:18:41,080 Speaker 1: and then from the late from around eleven hundred, another 293 00:18:41,119 --> 00:18:44,760 Speaker 1: two hundred years beyond that. You know, we had to 294 00:18:44,800 --> 00:18:47,359 Speaker 1: get a chance. Maybe i'll I should make this like 295 00:18:47,600 --> 00:18:50,600 Speaker 1: a monthly reading, almost like out of scripture, the history 296 00:18:50,600 --> 00:18:54,520 Speaker 1: of droughts in California. And it's it's pretty stunning. It's 297 00:18:54,560 --> 00:18:57,040 Speaker 1: there's been a lot of them, hundreds of years, many 298 00:18:57,080 --> 00:19:00,320 Speaker 1: of them twenty years at a time. So you know, 299 00:19:00,480 --> 00:19:02,760 Speaker 1: they can prattle on about climate change all they want. 300 00:19:03,119 --> 00:19:07,000 Speaker 1: That might add a degree or two overall, but you know, 301 00:19:07,040 --> 00:19:09,840 Speaker 1: the first one hundred and ten degrees that comes naturally 302 00:19:09,880 --> 00:19:14,879 Speaker 1: and it's always happened, and the lack of rain for 303 00:19:15,160 --> 00:19:19,280 Speaker 1: a few years, three years, maybe try twenty, try two 304 00:19:19,359 --> 00:19:23,760 Speaker 1: hundred and so now what we have is a big 305 00:19:23,800 --> 00:19:27,280 Speaker 1: shortage of water. And another thing that we repeatedly point 306 00:19:27,320 --> 00:19:33,280 Speaker 1: out is there is a ballot initiative that the majority 307 00:19:33,320 --> 00:19:37,600 Speaker 1: passed in twenty fourteen that allocated seven billion dollars to 308 00:19:37,760 --> 00:19:47,040 Speaker 1: spend on reservoir projects and other water retention ideas, and 309 00:19:47,200 --> 00:19:50,800 Speaker 1: they have not spent any money for eight years. The 310 00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:54,639 Speaker 1: money has been sitting, unborrowed, unspent. There's the authorization to 311 00:19:54,680 --> 00:19:58,760 Speaker 1: borrow the money. We can spend the money. Now. High 312 00:19:58,800 --> 00:20:02,919 Speaker 1: speed rail they grabbed that ten billionaire so real fast, 313 00:20:03,920 --> 00:20:06,480 Speaker 1: and they've borrowed all of it and spent most of it. 314 00:20:06,880 --> 00:20:11,480 Speaker 1: But when it came to the reservoir bonds, they never 315 00:20:11,480 --> 00:20:15,760 Speaker 1: spent it. They never borrowed it. High speed rail is 316 00:20:15,800 --> 00:20:25,160 Speaker 1: completely unnecessary. The reservoirs are absolutely necessary. They are borrowing 317 00:20:25,160 --> 00:20:28,040 Speaker 1: and spending all the high speed rail money none of 318 00:20:28,080 --> 00:20:32,160 Speaker 1: the reservoir money. What is that. That's just incompetence, that's 319 00:20:32,240 --> 00:20:39,080 Speaker 1: just boobery. So now we have a leaky pipe. It's 320 00:20:39,080 --> 00:20:44,160 Speaker 1: called the Upper Feeder Pipeline owned by the met Metropolitan 321 00:20:44,200 --> 00:20:48,600 Speaker 1: Water District, which takes water from the Colorado River to 322 00:20:48,680 --> 00:20:53,840 Speaker 1: California thirty six miles, and there was a leak in 323 00:20:53,920 --> 00:20:59,840 Speaker 1: it and they came up in the temporary fixed earlier 324 00:20:59,880 --> 00:21:01,240 Speaker 1: than this year, and now they have to do a 325 00:21:01,240 --> 00:21:04,760 Speaker 1: permanent fix. And in order to do the permanent fix, 326 00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:08,199 Speaker 1: there's going to be less water coming into our region. 327 00:21:08,920 --> 00:21:13,240 Speaker 1: So they have asked, and you know what's funny about 328 00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:16,399 Speaker 1: the news, because news has to put everything into shorthand, 329 00:21:17,320 --> 00:21:21,159 Speaker 1: they said, well, cities like Burbank and Glendale will be 330 00:21:21,160 --> 00:21:26,720 Speaker 1: effective from September sixth to September twenty if you can't 331 00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:32,520 Speaker 1: can't water anything on your property while they repair this 332 00:21:32,520 --> 00:21:36,520 Speaker 1: this huge leak, because they don't want what they describe 333 00:21:36,560 --> 00:21:43,199 Speaker 1: as a catastrophic failure of that critical pipe. Otherwise we 334 00:21:43,280 --> 00:21:47,760 Speaker 1: have a real big emergency. So that's that's, that's all acceptable. 335 00:21:47,800 --> 00:21:49,920 Speaker 1: I don't know how well they did maintenance, how well 336 00:21:49,960 --> 00:21:53,159 Speaker 1: they checked these pipes all these years. I don't know 337 00:21:53,240 --> 00:21:55,679 Speaker 1: why we got into a position of having a major 338 00:21:55,720 --> 00:21:59,520 Speaker 1: pipe failure like this from the Colorado River. I mean, 339 00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:02,520 Speaker 1: do they check anything anymore? I mean there there's water 340 00:22:02,560 --> 00:22:05,480 Speaker 1: main breaks. There was a water main break around the 341 00:22:05,520 --> 00:22:08,239 Speaker 1: corner from my house, maybe half mile away, less than 342 00:22:08,240 --> 00:22:11,439 Speaker 1: a half mile. We've been driving driving by it for weeks. 343 00:22:13,160 --> 00:22:18,160 Speaker 1: The order is constantly leaking. The roadway started to collapse. 344 00:22:18,320 --> 00:22:21,480 Speaker 1: There was a sinkhole, and they put cones up and 345 00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:24,800 Speaker 1: yellow tape to cordon off the sinkhole. But nobody's fixed 346 00:22:24,840 --> 00:22:31,320 Speaker 1: the road and nobody's fixed the leak. They made it 347 00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:33,399 Speaker 1: sound though that it's a couple of cities, you know. 348 00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:35,680 Speaker 1: I heard the same cities mentioned, you know, Beverly Hills 349 00:22:35,720 --> 00:22:40,119 Speaker 1: and Burbank and Glendale. Actually it's dozens of cities, and 350 00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:45,520 Speaker 1: it's four million residents. It's forty percent of La County. 351 00:22:47,359 --> 00:22:50,040 Speaker 1: And I see why they only mentioned a few, but 352 00:22:50,240 --> 00:22:55,040 Speaker 1: there's a lot here. I'll just go in alphabetical order 353 00:22:55,080 --> 00:22:56,920 Speaker 1: for some of them, so you get the idea. Out 354 00:22:56,920 --> 00:23:03,000 Speaker 1: to Dina, Artizia, Belle Bell Gardens, Bellflower, Beverly Hills, Burbank, Arson, Cerritos, Claimant, Compton, Covina, Commerce, 355 00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:06,199 Speaker 1: Coulder City, Diamond Bar, cut of Hey, Downey. I go 356 00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:09,440 Speaker 1: on and on all the way to Walnut Park. It's 357 00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:11,679 Speaker 1: a lot of the county. For two weeks, you're not 358 00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:16,760 Speaker 1: supposed to water or anything. And of course they tell 359 00:23:16,800 --> 00:23:20,359 Speaker 1: you to collect water from the shower or the bathtub. 360 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:23,360 Speaker 1: For some people, that'll that'll kill the plants. I don't 361 00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:28,280 Speaker 1: I don't see how that would help. Um, And and 362 00:23:28,359 --> 00:23:35,119 Speaker 1: it's it's it's it's fifteen days. Um. They're doing it 363 00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:36,880 Speaker 1: now because they don't want to do it in the wintertime. 364 00:23:39,680 --> 00:23:44,080 Speaker 1: But again, the way news is covered, there's no context, 365 00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:47,320 Speaker 1: there's no backdrop. It's not just that the water pipe broke. 366 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:51,320 Speaker 1: They don't explain why they didn't see this coming. Right. 367 00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:54,159 Speaker 1: Pipes don't break in a day. Pipes rot over the 368 00:23:54,160 --> 00:23:58,120 Speaker 1: course of years and years. And we all have pipe 369 00:23:58,160 --> 00:24:00,200 Speaker 1: leaks in our house. But at the same time, none 370 00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:02,400 Speaker 1: of us can go crawling through the underbelly of our 371 00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:04,640 Speaker 1: home or into the walls of our home to check 372 00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:06,960 Speaker 1: on the pipes. So when a pipe blows, we have 373 00:24:07,080 --> 00:24:10,600 Speaker 1: to deal with the leak or the flood, not our fault. Really, 374 00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:13,720 Speaker 1: it's not practical, but it should be practical for them 375 00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:17,080 Speaker 1: to check on a thirty six mile pipe. Don't they 376 00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:20,399 Speaker 1: have sensors? Don't they have computers? Don't they have Is 377 00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:26,080 Speaker 1: anybody awake? And again, if we had at least spent 378 00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:31,800 Speaker 1: the billions of dollars on the reservoirs and the other 379 00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:37,200 Speaker 1: water storage ideas, maybe this would be less of a problem. 380 00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:39,520 Speaker 1: Maybe we should be spending seventy billion dollars on this, 381 00:24:40,840 --> 00:24:44,320 Speaker 1: but again that's never discussed out loud. So now we 382 00:24:44,359 --> 00:24:47,040 Speaker 1: have water rationing for forty percent of the county, we 383 00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:52,520 Speaker 1: have electricity rationing, power rationing for everybody in the state 384 00:24:53,720 --> 00:24:57,600 Speaker 1: at the same time. And don't isn't there a little 385 00:24:57,640 --> 00:24:59,639 Speaker 1: party of the questions the people that are running the 386 00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:05,320 Speaker 1: state that maybe there are a bunch of boobs or 387 00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:11,320 Speaker 1: corrupt incompetent. I mean, how could you, how could you 388 00:25:11,320 --> 00:25:17,159 Speaker 1: screw up the water supply and the power supply? And 389 00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:20,240 Speaker 1: what are you what are you just gonna yell drout, drought, drought? 390 00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:23,360 Speaker 1: What are you going to do if the drought last 391 00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:26,040 Speaker 1: twenty years? You know, there's no plan to deal with that. 392 00:25:26,320 --> 00:25:28,160 Speaker 1: What if it last twenty years? What are you gonna do? 393 00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:33,760 Speaker 1: It's basic. Johnny Ken Show Cafine coming up after four o'clock. 394 00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:37,320 Speaker 1: Talk to Alex Stone about the flex alert, which is 395 00:25:37,359 --> 00:25:43,359 Speaker 1: now just nine minutes away. Yeah, we all have to 396 00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:46,760 Speaker 1: participate in the flex alert and unplug things. You wouldn't 397 00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:50,359 Speaker 1: want Gavin Newsom to miss out on being president because 398 00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:53,040 Speaker 1: there was a blackout in California. It's one hundred twelve 399 00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:56,480 Speaker 1: degrees in Woodland Hills right now, one d twelve hundred twelve. 400 00:25:57,320 --> 00:26:01,920 Speaker 1: You have the air can on for your dogs, right, Yes, 401 00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:06,080 Speaker 1: the flex alert though kicks in and just get the 402 00:26:06,119 --> 00:26:11,760 Speaker 1: flex alert one hundred twelve. It's either your dogs or 403 00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:16,959 Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom's political career. My dogs are gonna win. No 404 00:26:17,040 --> 00:26:20,280 Speaker 1: offense to the governor, but I'm not going to have 405 00:26:20,359 --> 00:26:23,439 Speaker 1: my dogs melting. What is uh, what is like the 406 00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:28,800 Speaker 1: max temperature for dogs? The store dogs, store dog? Yeah, 407 00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:30,560 Speaker 1: I got up to eighty in your house. Would that 408 00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:33,720 Speaker 1: be bad for the dogs? I have lizards. The lizards 409 00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:37,600 Speaker 1: don't care if it's one hundred and twelve. The lizards 410 00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:40,840 Speaker 1: probably Okay, Yeah, well dogs are different. Yeah, I'm sure 411 00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:44,280 Speaker 1: my dogs would be panting. Yeah, well we can't. We 412 00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:49,520 Speaker 1: can't risk your dogs. They're too precious. Better to risk Newsom. Um, hey, well, 413 00:26:49,560 --> 00:26:53,000 Speaker 1: Alex will be honest. Here's a story and uh, you know, 414 00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:56,440 Speaker 1: after Labor Day, I think the mayor's race will really 415 00:26:56,560 --> 00:27:01,000 Speaker 1: kick in between Rick Caruso and Karen Bass. Bass is 416 00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:05,680 Speaker 1: doing better than Caruso in the polls. Here is a report, 417 00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:11,919 Speaker 1: it's only a TV report from Steve Patterson with the 418 00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:17,000 Speaker 1: NBC News on how the crime is so high in 419 00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:21,560 Speaker 1: Los Angeles that now Hollywood executives are getting nervous see 420 00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:24,520 Speaker 1: what this is about. According to police, security camera footage 421 00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:27,399 Speaker 1: showing a man holding a wooden crucifix as he pried 422 00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:30,159 Speaker 1: open a window to a Catholic school and stole the 423 00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:34,080 Speaker 1: school's field trip fund, totaling thousands of dollars. Police are 424 00:27:34,080 --> 00:27:37,240 Speaker 1: still searching for the suspect. Just the latest striking video 425 00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:40,760 Speaker 1: of crime in southern California, thefts in broad daylight and 426 00:27:40,840 --> 00:27:44,000 Speaker 1: this surveillance video that shows a group from a street takeover, 427 00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:49,920 Speaker 1: ransacking and looting a seven eleven grocery store. This coming 428 00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:52,560 Speaker 1: after another crime spree at a series of LA seven 429 00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:56,520 Speaker 1: eleven's last month, which left multiple people injured and two dead, 430 00:27:56,760 --> 00:28:00,840 Speaker 1: including one store clerk. His girlfriend, speaking to bc LA, 431 00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:04,520 Speaker 1: there's no sense. Even if they took things like it 432 00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:08,199 Speaker 1: wasn't worth what they took from me Los Angeles. He's 433 00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:10,520 Speaker 1: seen a rise in violent crime of thirteen point nine 434 00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:13,400 Speaker 1: percent since this start of the pandemic. Homicide this year 435 00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:16,600 Speaker 1: up twenty seven percent since the same time in twenty twenty, 436 00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:19,680 Speaker 1: and on pace with last year. According to the LAPD. 437 00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:24,280 Speaker 1: The high profile crimes warring figures in Hollywood's entertainment industry, 438 00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:28,800 Speaker 1: and this week. The creator of Entourage, a show that 439 00:28:28,840 --> 00:28:31,680 Speaker 1: many call a love letter to Los Angeles, seems fed 440 00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:36,240 Speaker 1: up with the city. It's literally insane. I'm strange, woman 441 00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:39,520 Speaker 1: invasions and cars being stole. I think I'm literally I'm 442 00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:41,520 Speaker 1: going to the desert and I am not running back, 443 00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:45,160 Speaker 1: Doug Allen saying this on his show Victory the podcast, 444 00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:47,400 Speaker 1: at one point even saying it may be time for 445 00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:49,600 Speaker 1: him to leave the city. I won't be in LA. 446 00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:51,600 Speaker 1: I'll be somewhere else. I'm not gonna live here. I'm 447 00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:53,600 Speaker 1: not gonna raise a kid in La. Said, you know, 448 00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:56,840 Speaker 1: I mean, there's been shooting, you know, every day, A 449 00:28:56,880 --> 00:28:59,479 Speaker 1: far cry from the glitz and glam of Hollywood portrayed 450 00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:02,200 Speaker 1: on his eight BO show that ran for eight seasons 451 00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:04,400 Speaker 1: in the early two thousands. I need at least a 452 00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:07,479 Speaker 1: twenty million dollar commitment from each one of those guys. 453 00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:11,720 Speaker 1: Everything high class and highly enticing, the producer, walking back 454 00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:14,520 Speaker 1: the comments a bit on Instagram, saying quote, I wouldn't 455 00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:16,400 Speaker 1: call it fleeing. I'm just going to go to the 456 00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:18,920 Speaker 1: desert for a bit to find peace. In some answers 457 00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:21,360 Speaker 1: like Vince, did you don't believe I'm a good actor? 458 00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:23,960 Speaker 1: But He's not the first industry creative to sound the 459 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:26,920 Speaker 1: alarm about the increasing crime. The murder of thirty year 460 00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:29,560 Speaker 1: old boxing trainer a Zooma Bennett this month outside of 461 00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:33,520 Speaker 1: marijuana dispensary in the city, prompting outcry one of Bennett's 462 00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:36,880 Speaker 1: boxing clients, actor Frank Grillo of Avengers fame. I don't 463 00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:39,440 Speaker 1: know what's happened to Los Angeles, where you know, a 464 00:29:39,440 --> 00:29:42,720 Speaker 1: beautiful guy like this gets shot and killed over nothing. 465 00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:46,040 Speaker 1: So far, the LAPD has not released a suspect or 466 00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:49,840 Speaker 1: a motive. I don't know about you, but a lot 467 00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:52,240 Speaker 1: of my friends were talking about this more than ever, 468 00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:55,600 Speaker 1: being terrified of the crime. A friend of my wife, 469 00:29:56,440 --> 00:29:59,640 Speaker 1: she said a woman was mugged robbed last week going 470 00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:04,200 Speaker 1: to lack but museum never saw it coming. Ran up, 471 00:30:04,240 --> 00:30:07,560 Speaker 1: grabbed your bag, ran off. It's totally out of control. 472 00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:11,240 Speaker 1: I worry about it all the time. And there's a 473 00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:14,600 Speaker 1: lot of people who don't feel like walking out at 474 00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:17,960 Speaker 1: night anymore and shopping, going to restaurants. They're worried about 475 00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:20,320 Speaker 1: the kind of cars they have. Women are worried about 476 00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:22,080 Speaker 1: what they're wearing. Oh, I know, and a lot of 477 00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:24,360 Speaker 1: women aren't even wearing their wedding rings anymore. I was 478 00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:28,240 Speaker 1: talking to somebody at a mall a while ago, and yeah, 479 00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:31,280 Speaker 1: people are making these drastic changes because of the crime. 480 00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:35,000 Speaker 1: And so I always ask the same question, are any 481 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:38,080 Speaker 1: of these people connecting how they're changing their lives and 482 00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:43,560 Speaker 1: the fear that they feel to the votes that they make? 483 00:30:44,560 --> 00:30:46,720 Speaker 1: November we get to vote for a lot of new 484 00:30:46,760 --> 00:30:49,800 Speaker 1: people if we want to. Is anybody going to change 485 00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:52,960 Speaker 1: their votes? I mean, you got you got Bob Hertzberg 486 00:30:53,040 --> 00:30:56,280 Speaker 1: still at this moment trying to sell zero bail in Sacramento. 487 00:30:56,800 --> 00:31:02,400 Speaker 1: Who's voting for him? You got Newsom botching up the 488 00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:08,320 Speaker 1: power grid. You got water supplies being cut to forty 489 00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:12,000 Speaker 1: of La County. You've got so many people nervous and 490 00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:17,840 Speaker 1: scared about all the crazy criminals running around, and then 491 00:31:17,840 --> 00:31:21,480 Speaker 1: all the homeless laying in the streets. Does anybody connect 492 00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:26,840 Speaker 1: to the votes? Ultimately, it's our fault. We can rail 493 00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:31,800 Speaker 1: about Newsome and Gascone and Hertzberg, we can go on 494 00:31:31,840 --> 00:31:34,560 Speaker 1: and on about how terrible they are, but every one 495 00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:38,960 Speaker 1: of them was put in with a majority vote thousands, 496 00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:43,440 Speaker 1: tens of thousands, millions of votes. In Newsom's case, it's us. 497 00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:49,840 Speaker 1: We're picking these policies. Human nature is really strange, all right, 498 00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:53,880 Speaker 1: Alex Stone. When we come back to talk about the 499 00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:59,360 Speaker 1: heat wave, the drought, the power shortage, all that John 500 00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:02,280 Speaker 1: and Ken show remark has the news it's never been 501 00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:05,880 Speaker 1: more important to diversify your financial portfolio. 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